Dr. Mary Edwards Walker Quarter: Value, Mintage and Errors
The 2024 Dr. Mary Edwards Walker quarter is worth 25 cents in circulated condition. 300,600,000 were struck, 141,200,000 at Philadelphia and 159,400,000 at Denver. Released on 3 June 2024, it was the third coin of 2024 and the thirteenth in the program. Walker is the only woman ever awarded the Medal of Honor, and the left side of the reverse shows the medal in detail.
What this coin looks like
The reverse depicts Dr. Mary Edwards Walker holding her pocket surgical kit, with the Medal of Honor on her uniform and a surgeon's pin at her collar. The left side of the design shows the details of the Medal of Honor, with the inscription "MEDAL OF HONOR 1865." The Mint notes that after receiving the award, Walker continued to wear the Medal of Honor for the rest of her life.
This reverse is not an Artistic Infusion Program design: U.S. Mint Medallic Artist Phebe Hemphill both designed and sculpted it. "My hope is that her quarter will make her life story widely known," Hemphill said in the Mint's release, adding that she had been inspired by Walker's story. The Mint began shipping the coin, the third of the 2024 American Women Quarters, on 3 June 2024.
The reverse inscriptions read:
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- E PLURIBUS UNUM
- 25 CENTS
- DR. MARY EDWARDS WALKER
- MEDAL OF HONOR 1865
The obverse is the same on all 20 coins in the series: George Washington facing right, with LIBERTY, IN GOD WE TRUST, the date and the mint mark. The mint mark is to the right of Washington's neck, below the date. P is Philadelphia, D is Denver, S is San Francisco and appears only on proof and collector issues.
Is my Dr. Mary Edwards Walker quarter an error?
This coin carries the only fully documented doubled die in the series: the 2024-P Doubled Die Reverse, cataloged by Dr. James Wiles as Wexler 2024-P 25c MW VDDR-001. Strong hub doubling shows on the Medal of Honor, on the cannon muzzle and on the right hanger and right outline of the star, plus doubling in Walker's hair. It was found by Axer Enrique Cotto, reported to Ken Potter, and published in Numismatic News on 23 January 2025. Raw examples sold for roughly $75 to $205 at discovery.
Check a Philadelphia coin against a published diagnostic photograph before calling it VDDR-001. Denver coins are not affected.
What people most often bring to this coin are the three claims that attach to every coin in the series: a faint G in IN GOD WE TRUST (not an error, it is the typeface), flat shiny doubling on the lettering (machine doubling, not a doubled die), and small raised lumps from die chips. The errors page has nine tests that separate a genuine mint error from damage, and the short list of errors that are actually documented in this program.
What is it worth?
| Found in change | 25 cents |
|---|---|
| Uncirculated, from a Mint roll or bag | $1 to $2 |
| Certified mint state | A few dollars, rising to roughly $86 at the top of the population for the series |
| Clad proof (S mint) | Typically less than the cost of grading it |
| Silver proof (S mint, .999 fine) | A floor set by the silver price, plus a small premium |
Values as of October 2026. The full reasoning, including the four cases where a coin in this series is genuinely worth more, is on the value page.
How many were made
| Philadelphia (P) | 141,200,000 |
|---|---|
| Denver (D) | 159,400,000 |
| Total | 300,600,000 |
| Rank in the series | 4 of 20 by mintage, lowest first |
| San Francisco (S) | Not published by the Mint |
San Francisco (S) figures are not shown because the Mint has never published per-design mintages for S-mint American Women Quarters. Any S figure published elsewhere is a secondary-source estimate, and the two most commonly cited sets contradict each other.
See the full mintage table for all 20 designs, or the key date page for where this coin sits in the series.
Collector versions
Besides the Philadelphia and Denver coins in circulation, the Mint sold three San Francisco versions of the 2024 Dr. Mary Edwards Walker quarter directly to collectors. None were released into circulation.
| 2024-S uncirculated | Only in the 2024 three-roll set (40 P, 40 D, 40 S), $60.00 at issue |
|---|---|
| 2024-S clad proof | In the 2024 American Women Quarters Proof Set, $23.00 at issue, 51,916 sets sold |
| 2024-S silver proof | In the 2024 American Women Quarters Silver Proof Set, $80.00 at issue, 35,010 sets sold |
Set sales are as reported by CoinNews on 21 October 2026. Details on the proof and silver proof sets and the Mint rolls and bags.
Who was Dr. Mary Edwards Walker?
Mary Edwards Walker was born on 26 November 1832 in Oswego, New York, to Alvah and Vesta Walker. She attended Falley Seminary in Fulton, New York, and in 1855 graduated from Syracuse Medical College with a doctor of medicine degree, the only woman in her class. That year she married a fellow medical student, Albert Miller, and the two opened a practice in Rome, New York; the marriage later ended in divorce. In 1860 she briefly attended Bowen Collegiate Institute in Hopkinton, Iowa, until she was suspended for refusing to leave its all-male debating society.
When the Civil War began, the Army refused to commission her as a medical officer because she was a woman. She volunteered instead, serving at the First Battle of Bull Run on 21 July 1861 and working without pay at the U.S. Patent Office Hospital in Washington, and in 1862 served as an unpaid field surgeon near the front lines at Fredericksburg. She later worked in Chattanooga after the Battle of Chickamauga. In September 1863 the Army of the Cumberland hired her as a "Contract Acting Assistant Surgeon (civilian)," and she was later assigned to the 52nd Ohio Infantry.
On 10 April 1864 Confederate troops captured her and arrested her as a spy. She was held for four months at Castle Thunder prison in Richmond, Virginia, until she was freed in a prisoner exchange on 12 August 1864. After her release she supervised a women's prison in Louisville, Kentucky, and later ran an orphanage in Tennessee.
On 11 November 1865 President Andrew Johnson signed the order awarding her the Medal of Honor, recognizing service rendered "to the detriment of her own health" and her time as a prisoner of war. She remains the only woman to receive the medal. In 1917 an Army board reviewing past awards struck 911 names from the roll, hers among them, on the grounds that she had been a civilian contract surgeon rather than an officer or enlisted soldier. Her medal was restored in 1977.
Walker campaigned for women's rights and dress reform. She wore trousers, at first under a knee-length dress and later with a jacket, arguing that conventional women's clothing was uncomfortable, restricted movement and spread dirt, and she was arrested more than once for her clothing, including in New Orleans in 1870. She published Hit, a book of essays on women's rights, in 1871 and Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality in 1878, and she testified on women's suffrage before House committees in 1912 and 1914. In 1907 she published "Crowning Constitutional Argument," which held that the Constitution already gave women the right to vote.
Walker died at her home in Oswego on 21 February 1919, at age 86, and was buried in the town's Rural Cemetery.
She was selected as a Civil War surgeon, prisoner of war and women's rights and dress reform advocate who, as the Mint notes, is the only woman to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
The design
| Reverse designer | Phebe Hemphill, U.S. Mint Artistic Infusion Program |
|---|---|
| Reverse sculptor | Phebe Hemphill, U.S. Mint medallic artist |
| Obverse | Laura Gardin Fraser, designed and sculpted, 1931 |
| Released | 3 June 2024 |
Specifications
| Composition, circulating | 91.67% copper, 8.33% nickel (pure copper core, copper-nickel outer layers) |
|---|---|
| Composition, silver proof | .999 fine silver |
| Weight | 5.670 g clad, 6.343 g silver proof |
| Diameter | 24.26 mm |
| Thickness | 1.75 mm |
| Edge | reeded, 119 reeds |
| Mints | Philadelphia (P) and Denver (D) for circulation; San Francisco (S) for proof and collector issues |
No American Women Quarter was struck in 90% silver. The Mint moved its silver proof sets to .999 fine silver with the 2019-dated issues, before this program began.
Frequently asked questions
- How much is the Dr. Mary Edwards Walker quarter worth?
- Twenty-five cents in circulated condition. An uncirculated example from a Mint roll or bag trades for one to two dollars.
- How many Dr. Mary Edwards Walker quarters were made?
- 300,600,000 in total: 141,200,000 at Philadelphia and 159,400,000 at Denver.
- When was the Dr. Mary Edwards Walker quarter released?
- It entered circulation on 3 June 2024.
- Who designed the Dr. Mary Edwards Walker quarter?
- The reverse was designed by Phebe Hemphill of the Mint's Artistic Infusion Program and sculpted by U.S. Mint medallic artist Phebe Hemphill. The obverse, shared by all 20 coins, is by Laura Gardin Fraser.
- What is on the back of the Mary Edwards Walker quarter?
- The reverse shows Dr. Mary Edwards Walker holding her pocket surgical kit, with the Medal of Honor on her uniform and a surgeon's pin at her collar, plus a detailed view of the medal and the inscription "MEDAL OF HONOR 1865." Phebe Hemphill designed and sculpted it.
- Was Mary Edwards Walker's Medal of Honor taken away?
- Yes. In 1917 an Army board struck her name and 910 others from the Medal of Honor roll because she had been a civilian contract surgeon. She kept wearing the medal, and it was restored in 1977.
Sources
- Mintage figures: U.S. Mint circulating coin production dataset.
- Designer and sculptor credits: U.S. Mint, cross-checked against the artists' initials on the coin.
- Coin photograph: United States Mint image.
- U.S. Mint: United States Mint Announces Designs for 2024 American Women Quarters Program Coins
- U.S. Mint: United States Mint Begins Shipping 2024 American Women Quarters Honoring Dr. Mary Edwards Walker on June 3
- U.S. Mint: 2024 American Women Quarters Program Honorees Announced
- National Park Service: Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
- Wikipedia: Mary Edwards Walker
Last verified: October 2026. Mintage figures are final.